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It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means: it’s time for another round of Connections!
Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers are coming right up.
How To Play Connections
Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. You get a new puzzle at midnight every day. You can play on the NYT website or Games app.
You’re presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to arrange them into four groups of four by figuring out the links between them. The groups could be things like items you can click, names for research study participants or words preceded by a body part.
There’s only one solution for each puzzle, and you’ll need to be careful when it comes to words that might fit into more than one category. You can shuffle the words to perhaps help you see links between them.
Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to figure out, blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is usually the most difficult one. The purple group often involves wordplay.
Select four words you think go together and press Submit. If you make a guess and you’re incorrect, you’ll lose a life. If you’re close to having a correct group, you might see a message telling you that you’re one word away from getting it right, but you’ll still need to figure out which one to swap.
If you make four mistakes, it’s game over. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen with the help of some hints, and, if you’re really struggling, today’s Connections answers. As with Wordle and other similar games, it’s easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chats.
What Are Today’s Connections Hints?
Scroll slowly! Just after the hints for each of today’s Connections groups, I’ll reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you which words go into them.
Today’s 16 words are…
- CATER
- BOWL
- THROW
- STAR
- CARET
- TRACE
- CRATE
- HASH
- SHRED
- BED
- BRACE
- TOUCH
- PLAN
- HINT
- COLLAR
- HOST
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — lil’ bit
- Green group — essentials for a four-legged friend
- Blue group — help run a shindig or a rager
- Purple group — they’re either right in front of you or a tap away
What Are Today’s Connections Groups?
Need some extra help?
Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.
Today’s groups are…
- Yellow group — very small amount
- Green group — puppy purchases
- Blue group — help put on a party
- Purple group — symbols on a keyboard
What Are Today’s Connections Answers?
Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll any further down the page until you’re ready to find out today’s Connections answers.
This is your final warning!
Today’s Connections answers are…
- Yellow group — very small amount (HINT, SHRED, TOUCH, TRACE)
- Green group — puppy purchases (BED, BOWL, COLLAR, CRATE)
- Blue group — help put on a party (CATER, HOST, PLAN, THROW)
- Purple group — symbols on a keyboard (BRACE, CARET, HASH, STAR)
My three-game winning run has come to an end.
Tough one today but at least I got the two most difficult groups. The blues came together when I realized the link between CATER and HOST. I struggled to remember what a CARET was but once I did the purples became a little clearer. However, I first went with TOUCH (as in a touchpad) instead of BRACE.
I didn’t have much of a clue from there. I figured that BOWL and SHRED had something to do with skateboarding, so including BED and CRATE in my guess meant that I was one away from a group that I didn’t have in mind. A couple more random guesses later and it was game over.
Side note: At one point, I thought there might be a Goldilocks and the Three Bears group thanks to BED and BOWL.
That’s all there is to it for today’s Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog for hints and the solution for Thursday’s game if you need them.
P.S. Skateboarding brings to mind the Tony Hawk games and their brilliant soundtracks. Here’s the quintessential song from those:
